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Can you believe it?
Good to see all your hard work payed off. I use your site all the time and will continue to do so.
Oh dear, here are a few keywords to illustrate that you don't know diddly.
Apache
PERL
Samba
GNU
I and some others directly involved with some of these don't actually ever financially need to turn up for work ever again, maybe we do it
because we enjoy it?
So your saying that Zafir should of not sold and ASSERT(continued to work a million hours and worry about everything) just to do it because he enjoyed it and not take any money ? Oh and your such a guru that you don't need to turn up for work again, I'm sure with your elitist self centered look down on everyone who doesnt live up to your standards attitude that your real popular at the office. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant
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My major complaint is the speed of the site. As it stands currently, it is unusable. I will check back occasionally, but until this issue is resolved I will not be making use of CodeGuru. What a Shame. This site was a very useful resource.
-Brad
What a boondoggle! If Zafir would have sent out a message like, "Hey, we need some cash here to help pay the bills or I'm gonna have to sell off codeguru", I would have opened up my wallet and chipped in. It was that valuable to me. I learned more here than all of the other sites combined. I aspired to become good enough to someday post something(!) and "repay" what I've gleaned from the site over time. No more. This change is absolutely in the wrong direction.
Zafir-- you've been bamboozled, hornswaggled--well, downright snookered. The new owners know absolutely *****************NOTHING****************** about the way developers think!!!! And furthermore, their silence after this outright rebellion shows they don't give &*()&*) either!! Combine that with the obvious legal problems with their copyright/use statement, and you can see that not just the old, loyal crowd is going to leave, but new developers will largely pass it by the first time they hit the site, thinking "yeah, another one of those... better keep looking." They'll eventually hit the new codeguru replacement that WILL come into existence (pretty soon I think). The magic in the old codeguru, and the ONLY way a site such as this can work, is to have substance over pizzaz and freedom from claimed ownership of anything posted or downloaded. Period. There is no other formula.
Zafir, you guys are the winners in all this. You've escaped the burden of the mundane earn-a-buck life. We'll setup a new site somewhere else and continue to get what we got on the old codeguru. But a year from now developer.com is going to wonder about how much they paid for what they got! You guys got the cash while there was something to sell.
it's a lot more confusing, than before, I don't like it, I just hope that the content quality doesn't drop as well....
In general, the wavy left border image is distracting.
It is especially distracting on pages like:
http://www.codeguru.com/toolbar/demo_toolbar_c.shtml
(article: "Adding a drop arrow to a toolbar") On this
page, you can see the "waves" touching the sample
dialog image and bits of code, making the article
itself more difficult to read. A simple aqua rectangle,
with a decent margin between the aqua rectangle and
the article proper, would be a great deal easier to read.
Alternatively: at least increase/introduce a margin between
the blue waves and the text and images of the article itself.
Legalese is confusing and this is one such case. If you go down further you'll see the following
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS OF ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT
Legalese is confusing and this is one such case. If you go down further you'll see the following
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS OF ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT
This is what it says further down
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS OF ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT
This is what it says further down
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS OF ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT
Thank you for calrifying. I must admit that I did not understand that. The statement does seem a little contradictory, but I feel a little better.
Zafir's top level post includes this comment regarding the tiny fixed width of some pages.
We're not trading beanie babies out here. Who are the 'non techies' we're suddenly concerned with?? Take a look at the old polls - about 65% responding have 2 or more computers -at home-. 68% own more than 10 programming books, and 17% of those own more than FIFTY. 65% think a development machine should have 128 MB or more RAM. Over 60% run NT 4 on their development machine.
If you're trying to broaden your audience, fine. But I think you are making a big mistake if you don't see how it will alienate the existing audience.